Religion and the Protest Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6180938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nikolay Zakharov (0000-0001-6018-6685, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden), Aliaksei Lastouski (0000-0002-5034-7454, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden), Sergei Mudrov (0000-0003-3405-8879, Institute for Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 22-46 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communist and Post-Communist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-067X • E-ISSN: 1873-6920 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/cpcs.2023.1823993 |
| OpenAlex | W4383334806 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article analyzes the position of the Christian churches on the protests in Belarus in 2020. This study contributes to the research on the state-society relationship in autocratic regimes by nuancing the thesis that civil society is either marginalized or fully co-opted by the authoritarian state. The protest wave showed that the initiatives of religious groups fostered collective action in a state system that is punitive of any dissent. The article identifies churches as an ambivalent space: one where the state can exercise social control, but where potential resistance to the repressive state might also occur since they enjoy a greater degree of freedom than other organizations in authoritarian Belarus. Moreover, our study argues that religion can be seen as a privileged arena of protest within existing legal frameworks of the “contract” between the state and the church. By looking at the societal engagement of different religious confessions campaigning for their rights and promoting their visions of desirable political development on the grassroots level, this article addresses a range of opportunities to engage in civic activism in Belarus
Authoritarianism · Civil disobedience · Civil society · Collective action · Democracy · Dissent · Grassroots · Political dissent · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Vision · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Religion and Society Interactions
On the Shifting Nature of Religion during the Ongoing Post-Communist Transformation in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
Doomed to fail? Why success was almost not an option in the 2020 protests in Belarus
Authoritarian Cooptation of Civil Society
The Russian Orthodox Church as moral norm entrepreneur
NGO Strategies in an Authoritarian Context, and Their Implications for Citizenship
Praying Instead of Protesting? The Belarusian Churches and Political Protest After the 2020 Presidential Election
Sacred Language in the Borderlands
The geopolitical orientations of ordinary Belarusians
Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states
The Belarus crisis
Anti-opposition crackdowns and protest
The election trap
Color revolutions
Church-State Relations in the Post-Communist World
Religious Reestablishment in Post-Communist Polities
The three pillars of stability
Religious Competition and Ethnic Mobilization in Latin America
The Church and Political Opposition
The Protests in Belarus
The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |